Exakatal

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A metric unit of catalytic activity equal to one quintillion katals.

A metric unit of catalytic activity equal to one quintillion (10^18) katals. Its symbol is Ekat. It represents an unimaginably massive reaction rate of one quintillion moles per second. This unit is purely theoretical and has no practical application in chemistry or biology.

Heard on the job

An exakatal of enzyme activity would convert oceans of substrate in a fraction of a second.